We don't need milk!?

Question

I don't even have to research to know this,it is so obvios, I mean, that is why it comes from cows, it is for BABY COWS! DUH!
How can people not know that , only baby humans need HUMAN MILK not cow milk, that is why it is produced by HUMANS and not cows! Doesn't anyone know any thing. Recent studys show the obvious, cow milk is produced by COWS not humans, because it is for baby cows to grow strong bones ,It does not grow strong bones for a human.
The reason humans produce milk is because HUMAN MILK is for BABYS only to grow strong bones.
Being a baby, your just developing your body structure and that is why moms produce milk for their babys.
So any type of milk is not nessecary for adults or children that aren't infants!
I am 12 and I can realize this, but some adults can? this country is a shame.....

D a little research, I have and I realized that cows milk does not grow strong bones for humans, there was even a documentary on the science channel about it!

So by drinking milk you are all feeding into the society of fat *** rich and cruel corperations that abuse energy for money.
Does that make you happy? I bet you people don't give a damn and you couldn't be a v egan if you tried!
Well, I give you this, at least your storing fat for your winter hybernation! LOL
Enjoy your milk as you sit down like all the rest of the ignorant in this country and not think about the rich schemeing corperations making money off your weak fat ***!
ENJOY!!!!

Answer 1

This Is Long But Very Informative:


Most people have been so conditioned to believe that the healthy growth of their children's bones is dependent upon receiving calcium from processed cow's milk that they view milk commercials as more of a public service announcement than an attempt by businessmen to sell a product.

Several well-footnoted books and countless articles on the subject show that processed cow's milk is not healthy for humans and, to the contrary, has been linked to a wide range of physiological complications. The list of problems that have been associated with the consumption of milk and dairy products includes iron deficiency anemia, allergies, diarrhea, heart disease, colic, cramps, gastrointestinal bleeding, sinusitis, skin rashes, acne, arthritis, diabetes, ear infections, osteoporosis, asthma, autoimmune diseases and possibly even lung cancer, multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Milk and dairy products are acid-forming and mucus-producing substances that provide the ideal bodily environment for many children and adults to experience increased frequency of colds and flues.

The milk of mammals is species-specific and cow's milk is a species-specific food for calves. Dr. Frank Oski explains in his book Don't Drink Your Milk!, ìThe milk of each species appears to have been specifically designed to protect the young of that species.....Heating, sterilization, or modification of the milk in any way destroys the protection.î

There is a tremendous difference between human babies and baby calves and a corresponding difference between the milk intended to nourish human babies and baby calves. It takes about 180 days for a human infant to double its birth weight, and human milk is five to seven percent protein. It takes only 45 days for a calf to double its birth weight and cow's milk is 15 percent protein. This protein in cow's milk is of a different composition than that of human milk and is poorly assimilated in the human body. The primary type of protein in cow's milk is casein. According to Dr. John R. Christopher, N.D., M.H., there is up to 20 times more casein in cow's milk than human milk which makes the nutrients in cow's milk difficult (if not impossible) for humans to assimilate.

Lost in the process

Pasteurizing milk destroys enzymes and reduces the vitamin content by over 50 percent. Raw milk contains beneficial bacteria such as lactobacillus acidolphilus which holds the putrefactive bacteria in check. This is why raw milk will eventually curdle and sour if allowed to sit at room temperature. Pasteurized milk, not having any beneficial bacteria or enzymes, eventually rots.

The irony of pasteurization is that it destroys the germicidal properties of milk. Experimental animals deteriorate rapidly on pasteurized milk. For instance, calves fed pasteurized milk die within 60 days, as shown by numerous experiments. So why do we pasteurize milk? 1) It extends the shelf life of milk from five days to several weeks and 2) It enables the farmer to have lower standards of cleanliness. The standards for certified dairy herds and milk handlers of raw milk are considerably higher than for herds whose milk is to be pasteurized. Homogenizing milk has been linked to the rise in arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and heart disease. The culprit is an enzyme in milk called xanthine oxidase (XO) which partly survives pasteurization (40 percent). When the cream in milk is in it's natural state, the fat globules are too large to go through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream.

Homogenization changes that by straining the fat through tiny pores under great pressure. XO attaches to the fat molecules (now reduced in size but increased in amount a hundred times) which are now small enough to get into the bloodstream and do its damage.

Scientists have discovered that a significant amount of XO is present in areas of hardened and blocked arteries. XO is not present in human milk. In clean, raw cow's milk. XO is not absorbed by the intestines.

Your bones are a mineral bank for your body storing 99 percent calcium, 85 percent phosphorus and 60 percent magnesium. When mineral levels are low in the blood, osteoclasts break down bone to free up these minerals and deposit them in the blood. Excessive animal protein intake increases the need for calcium to neutralize the acid formed from digesting animal protein. This indicates that the drinking of processed milk destroys bone in the process of digestion -- the opposite of what the Dairy Farmer's Association of America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration has been telling the American public for generations.

Conditioning the American public to believe that processed cow's milk is beneficial, if not critical to growing healthy bodies is not unlike conditioning the American public to believe that fluoride prevents tooth decay.

Jethro Kloss, author of the internationally recognized and revered herbalist resource guide ìBack to Edenî stated in 1939 that, ìCow's milk is unfit for human consumptionî and causes the symptoms of ìintestinal auto-intoxication.î

Great Post....I'm going soy now....

Answer 2

OK, I reckon you're going to get this a lot in your life if this is how you act, but you're a complete moron.

Now, cow meat comes from cows. The cow doesn't intend us to eat its muscles in the same way it doesn't intend us to drink its milk, but we still do and it's still healthy.
Humans make milk, yes this milk is specifically intended for humans, and cow's milk specifically for cows, but they're still very similar and contain similar proteins, fats, vitamins and other essentials, meaning cows milk is still useful and healthy for humans.
Now given that you admit human children need milk for their development, and we know that cows milk is very similar stuff, I don't see how you can claim milk is bad from a health perspective. Calcium is needed for bones, among other things. One of the best sources of calcium is dairy products. Go figure. Milk DOES create healthy bones in humans.

As for the necessity argument, it isn't necessary for humans to go to the cinema, does that mean we shouldn't do it. When you analyse it there's no reason there NOT to drink milk.
Anyway, most people of the Northern European races have the ability to drink and use milk even after they're adults. Far less of other races. That implies that evolution has adapted Northern Europeans (most Americans fit into this category, basically white people) at least for drinking milk into adulthood.

Now,I have researched and most of the sites on the web seem to agree with me. The ones that don't are mostly affiliated with PETA in some way. I think I know who's more likely to be right.

Answer 3

There is a lot more to it than that. Milk is a food. It is only one kind of food. It is a great food for when you can't get all of the calories, vitamins, and protein that you need from the vegetables you eat, especially for people who don't eat that many or can't get them. It isn't supposed to be consumed like water, but the milk processing companies figured out they could take the real milk, use the fat to make enough cheese to pay the dairy farmers, and then charge people for the leftover milk (2%, 1%, Skim) at pure profit. By controlling the government regulations, they also prevent any farmers from getting in on the profits selling real milk right from the cows.

Read some more about this at http://www.realmilk.com
Also, read about the Sherpa who pretty much live on Yak milk/tea and butter. You aren't going to survive as a vegetarian at high altitudes.

Yes, baby humans need human milk. The rest of us need real food.
Got Spinach?

Answer 4

You weren't breastfed were you?
Cows milk , goats milk, mares milk all milk is good nutrition and it isn't killing the cow or what ever. People have kept cows for milk for a long time and will a long time more. Try a pizza without cheese .Dairy is a industry milk products are in many foods that I bet you eat and don't even know it. Milk Chocolate anyone?

Answer 5

I guess it's kind of gross - I mean, no other animal drinks the milk of a different species.
I would have no objections with eating eggs/drinking milk if animals didn't have to be killed for their production. A lot of people think that it's ok to drink milk because you're not killing anything, but in order for a cow to produce milk, they must have a baby - which is sold off as veal.
:'(
I take it you're a vegan (?????)

"you do realize that cow milk has calcium and other proteins that human milk can't produce."
- if human milk doesn't contain it, what makes you so certain that we are MEANT to be taking that protein? Human milk is produced to feed babies and it provides all the nutrients that a baby needs. If we needed to protein found in cows milk, then would the human body produce it?
I'm not a vegan myself, but I avoid dairy and eggs as much as I possibly can.

Answer 6

animal fats are very good for the brain. these fats come from the milk that is produced. i myself live on a grass fed, free range beef ranch (which makes the meat all organic) and drink unprocessed milk which i find quite delicious (although this is an aquired taste). it's a very small operation and meant for personal consumption with minimal outside sales. it seems to me that you just wanted to lash out and judge people for not agreeing with your beliefs. processed milk that you buy in stores isn't really good for people as most of the "good stuff" has been taken out due to over zealous american food laws.

Answer 7

I understand what you are saying, because I read those magazines and PETA pamphlets, too. I do not eat cow. I just love the taste of milk. And cheese. And ice cream. I'm sorry if that offends you, but I'm not sorry that I like milk.

Answer 8

yikes talk about a soapbox but i agree with you...we are the only animals that drink another animals milk after infancy.

There is enough calcium in vegables to meet our daily needs and with the fabulous soy products out there there is no need for nutritional worry.

The whole "Got Milk" campaign is nothing but propaganda from dairy farmers. With the grain we use to feed cows we could be using that to feed starving people across the world. Personally i boycott beef and dairy products specifically for the above mentioned resons!

Answer 9

I already knew this, seeing as I cannot drink milk and I'm not shriveling up and dying yet.

However, while the fat in milk is detrimental to you, the calcium is not, and is important, especially for older women. There are other ways of getting calcium - some prefer to get it from milk, others take vitamin supplements.

Answer 10

i understand your thoughts but apparently the government doesn't agree with you because wic approves and goes over how much milk your child needs, and so does the baby doctor so apparently a baby does need milk and if you do not get enough of vitamins you have major problems with diseases out there..

some mothers also cannot produce milk for babies..and so they have to feed them something, do you remember that story of that mom who fed her child nothing but sweet grass..the baby died..
so i think milk is pretty important

Answer 11

you do realize that cow milk has calcium and other proteins that human milk can't produce. it is also a necessity for growing children and/or all people to maintain a healthier lifestyle. do some more research.